Summary
The Revisionist union in the diamond industry, one of the five unions among which diamond workers’ representation was splintered, whose affiliated workers and activists worked in factories whose owners held antiunion or compulsory-arbitration approaches (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.115, p.166).
Details
- The PDMA negotiated on two tracks, with the Histadrut separately and with the Revisionist NWF and the other minority unions together (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.170).
- The NWF and the Histadrut in an uncharacteristic consensus opposed the PDMA’s demand in March 1942 that workers and unions commit to refrain from industrial action for a two-year agreement — the text prints the union once as “NWA” (PDF p.170).
- Its leader Eliezer Shostak concurred in December 1942 that the problem lay with individual manufacturers who despised the PDMA’s authority, and that the sides should cooperate in forcing workers to affiliate to one of the unions (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.176).